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Tuesday, May 2, 2006

Red-phase eastern screech-owl in a nest cavity near the Shawnee cabins.

The birding at the OOS conference last weekend was totally fab, even without a major influx of migrants just passing through. I was leading trips on Saturday and Sunday, so only the most cooperative birds got their pictures taken (after all trip participants got to ogle the bird through my scope, I tried to snap a frame or two).

About Bill

Bill of the Birds

Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest by day. He's also a keen birder, the author of many books, a dad, a field trip leader, an ecotourism consultant, a guitar player, the host of the "This Birding Life" podcast, a regular speaker/performer on the birding festival circuit, a gentleman farmer, and a fungi to be around. His North American life list is somewhere between 673 and 675. His favorite bird is the red-headed woodpecker. His "spark bird" was a snowy owl. He has watched birds in 25 countries and 44 states. But his favorite place to watch birds is on the 80-acre farm he shares with his wife, artist/writer Julie Zickefoose. Some kind person once called Bill "The Pied Piper of Birding" and he has been trying to live up to that moniker ever since.